The term QA Build can be interpreted as Question and Answer Builder or Quick Application Build. The QA Build programming environment is designed to help you write database application programs quickly and easily. It also contains tools that help system integrators perform such tasks as distributing changes to QAB programs, locating problems caused by changes to the database, and reconciling conflicting changes from programmers working on different revisions of a database.
QA Build is suited to applications that process a group of transactions. A transaction represents a logical group of actions such as the sale of a group of items to a customer or the crediting of an account with the sum of a set of figures. For example, the user (the cashier or operator) enters one or more item codes, the program retrieves the cost of the items, calculates the total and outputs the information to the display and to the printer.
Application programs developed in QA Build can range from simple data entry programs to complex retail and banking programs.
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